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carina}, the two outer ones extending from the base to the apex, 

 the central one not quite running to the apex ; a carina runs 

 along the margin of the truncation and up the lateral margins. 

 The head strongly punctured ; the face with fine white downy 

 pile ; the mandibles ferruginous, with the base and apex obscurely 

 so. The pro- and mesothorax with strong punctures ; wings 

 fuscous, somewhat paler at their apex. Abdomen Mith fine scat- 

 tered punctures, most dosely punctured on the apical segments ; 

 the terminal segment rugose ; the segments fringed at the sides 

 and beneath with thin white pubescence. 



Hah. Amazons, Ega. 



8. Tiphia salutatrix. 



Female. Length 3| lines. — Black and shining, punctured, except 

 the two basal segments of the abdomen, the scutellum, and the 

 metathorax, which are smooth and shining, the latter with three 

 central longitudinal carina) that are nearly parallel, very slightly 

 converging towards the verge of the truncation, which has a raised 

 carina that runs up the lateral margins. The head, pro- and meso- 

 thorax with fine distant punctures ; the mandibles ferruginous, 

 the antennte very obscurely so. The anterior and intermediate 

 tibia) and tarsi, and the tips of the femora, dark ferruginous ; 

 wings subhyaliue, the nervures and outer margin of the tcgulae 

 rufo-testaceous. The third and following segments of the abdo- 

 men finely punctured ; the apex ferruginous. 



Male. The size of the female. — The head and thorax more closely 

 punctured ; the flagellum of the antennae fulvous beneath ; the 

 mandibles ferruginous towards their apex. The wings subhyaline, 

 with the nervures and stigma black ; the scutellum punctured, the 

 apical margins of the segments distinctly punctured. 



Hab. Amazons, Ega. 



9. TipMa campantila. 



Male. Length 3| lines. — Black and shining, punctured, except the 

 two basal segments of the abdomen and the metathorax, the latter 

 with three subparallel carinte, the middle one with a deep groove 

 on each side. The head finely punctured, the face with a white 

 downy j)ile ; the pro- and mesothorax finely punctured ; wings 

 subhyaline, becoming hyaline towards the base, the nervures and 

 stigma black. Abdomen with the first segment bell-shaped and 

 much narrower than the second segment, beyond which it is finely 

 but not closely punctured ; beneath finely punctured. 



Hah. Ega. 



This species resembles the male of T. salutatrix, from which it 



